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Technorati reports that over 100 000 new ‘blogs? are created each day. Because these online diaries offer instant publishing opportunities, you potentially have access to a wealth of knowledge from commentators and experts (if they blog) in a wide range of fields. Most internet searches will turn up results from blogs, but there are some blog-specific search engines such as: Blogdigger and Google?s blog search.
Some blogs also offer RSS feeds, so you can add them to your feedreader to keep up to date with what your favourite ‘bloggers? are writing.
One thing to bear in mind is that the content of blogs is likely to be as diverse and varied as the people who are writing it. It?s therefore practical to apply some evaluation skills if you intend to rely on the information you find on blogs in any way ? in particular look for timeliness (how often is the blog updated?); provenance and objectivity (what is the blog for? who put it there and why?)
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